Nail-clipper.



C E L w m A T S E B PATENTED JAN. 23, 1906.

A. H. FHIBSE.

NAIL CLIPPER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. so, 1905.

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' ADOLPH H. FRIESE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NAiL-CLIPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1906.

Application filed January 30. 1905. Serial No. 243,219.

, ping finger-nails, toe-nails, and the like; and

the object thereof is to provide a device of this class which is simple in construction and operation and which may also be used for vanous other purposes.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, inwhich the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a sectional side view of my imroved nailclipper; Fig. 2, a section on the ine .2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

In the practice of my invention I provide a nail clipper which comprises two handle members a and b, having shanks a and b whichare curved at an angle of about fortyfive degrees to the handle members and which are pivoted together at c in the manner of a pair of shears and each of which is provided with a pro'ecting jaw d, said jaws being segmental in orm, as shown at d", and provided with inwardly-directed cutting edges (P.

In connecting the shanks a and b of the handle members a and b I form in one of said shanks a transverse recess a through which the other shank passes, and in the form of construction shown the recess a is formed in the shank a and the shank b is reduced in form and passes through said recess and is held therein by a transverse plate e, which is secured to the shank a by screws or bolts 6 The handle members a, and b are semicylindrical in cross section and are separated by a longitudinal slotf, and each of said handle members is provided with a longitudinal central space g, and the inner faces of said handle members are provided with a longitudinal slot or opening g and placed in each of members being also provid the longitudinal spaces g is a slide h, each of which is provided with a headed screw, pin, or bolt 71?, and said headed pins, screws, or bolts 7L pass outwardly through the corresponding slots h, and the slides h may be moved longitudinally of the handle members by means of said headed ins or bolts. One of the slides h is provide with a nail-file t and the other with a blade 7', and said blade may be used in the manner of an ordinary knife-blade and the file i in the manner of ordinary devices of this class, and either said file or said blade may be projected through the end In of the handle members a and b b simply moving the stood, and when desired .or necessary they .slides h outwardly, as wi 1 be readily undermay be withdrawn into the handle members i i by moving said slides inwardly.

Between the separate handle members or between the shanks a, and 6 thereof is placed a spring m, which normally serves to separate said handle'members and to 'open the jaws d, and the operation of this device in clipping or trimming nails will be the same as that of other devices of this class.

It will thus be seen that I provide a combination tool or implement which may be used as a nail-clipper, as a nail-file, and is also provided. with a knife-blade which may be used for various purposes.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

i 1. A device of the class described, comprising two handle members having shanks at one end which are ivoted together in the manner of a pair of sliears, said shanks being provided with projecting jaws having in wardly-directed cutting ed es, said handle membersbeing also provide with lon itudi-' nal spaces which open outwardly an with slides which are mounted therein and pro vided with different tools, substantially as shown and described.

2. A device of the class described, comprising two handle members having curved shanks at one end ivoted together in the mannerof a pair of s ears, said shanks being provided with projecting jaws having inwardly-directed cutting ed es, said handle with longitudi- BEST AVAILABLE cop nal chambers which open outwardly and toolmy invention I have signed my name, in presslides mounted therein, said handle members ence of the subscribing Witnesses, this 28th being also provided with longitudinal slots, day of January, 1905.

and devices passing through said slots and ADOLPH H. FRIESE.

upnneclled with said slides, substantially 7.5 Witnesses: v

qwn and described. F. A. STEWART 11' t'ekfinony that 1 claim the foreggaing w: y C. J. KLEIN. 

